No historical markers to speak of

This afternoon I brought the girls to the California Jelly Belly factory. The tour was interesting and it was free and we got lots of free samples at the end of our tour.

Of course, the idea behind all of the free samples is that they will make you want to buy more Jelly Bellies. At the "free sample" counter at the end of our tour I asked Amelia and Diana what flavors they thought they would like to try. Diana wanted cotton candy and Amelia chose raspberry. I have to admit that the raspberry Jelly Bellies are pretty darn good.

As for myself, I bought a bag of cappuccino and latte Jelly Bellies and a bag of ice cream flavored beans. Apparently, Jelly Belly is connected to Cold Stone, somehow, and now Jelly Belly beans come in flavors like mint mint chocolate chip and birthday cake remix. I love birthday cake ice cream from Cold Stone, and the matching Jelly Bellies are quite good as well. Their new apple pie a la mode Jelly Bellies are nothing to sneeze at either.

So all-in-all we had fun and ate too much sugar. Two things I can take away from the tour that make me like Jelly Bellies are: 1) Jelly Bellies are made from relatively normal ingredients (like sugar and corn starch) and 2) Jelly Bellies are made in the USA. Yea, for the USA! (I'm beginning to really care whether or not products I purchase are made in the USA. Maybe we should all start paying close attention to this.)

Another thing I enjoyed were the portraits in Jelly Bellies. There were several portraits of former President Ronald Reagan at the plant, and I took pictures of almost all of them. There was also a portrait of Amelia Earhart in the plant that said "Amelia" in bold red letters at the top. Unfortunately, this was in a portion of the plant where we weren't supposed to use our cameras. I probably could have gotten out of there with a picture, but I'm big on following the rules - as most of you know.

Lisa